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Satire

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Literature
Wit and Humor

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Images from the collections

Images about Satire

11 images from works
  • Caricature of Serge Samuel Voronoff (1866 - )
  • Coloured etching: 'The Cholic'; by Cruikshank
  • Hogarth, Marriage a la mode: suicide of the countess
  • Punch, 25 May 1861, 'The Lion of the Season'
  • Chanteclair, 1908
  • Engraving: scene from Sterne's Tristram
  • The physician's receipt : to cure a Welshman of a fever, or to kill an Englishman with the same medicine.
  • Punch, 18 May 1861, 'Monkeyana'
  • Punch, 30 November 1872, 'Piety and Parallel
  • Caricatural illustration of ophidiophobia (fear of snakes)
  • Satirical drawing: "fenian-pest". Punch, 1866

Works from the collections

55 works

    • Books
    • Online

    Merryland displayed: or, plagiarism, ignorance, and impudence, detected. : Being observations upon a pamphlet intituled A New Description of Merryland.

    | Date: MDCCXLI
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    Punch, 25 May 1861, 'The Lion of the Season'

    • Ephemera

    Doctor Sanative. : 'tis known that doctors (like a friend) seldom take what they recommend ... the lottery will be drawn 18th & 26th this month, jan Thomas Bish.

    | Date: [between 1800 and 1826?]
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    A lecture on heads / by Geo. Alex. Stevens, with additions, by Mr. Pilon, as delivered by Mr. Charles Lee Lewes. To which is added, an essay on satire. With forty-seven heads by Nesbit, from designs by Thurston.

    George Alexander Stevens | Date: 1806
    • Ephemera

    The celebrated and highly-renowned Doctor Galen Aesculape, : now on his tour of the world, is just arr[ived] from the Terra Australis, incognita, where his skill has entirely eradicated every disease, and his patients are now immortal.

    | Date: [between 1750 and 1799?]
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Related topics

Medicine
Physicians
Poetry
DARWIN, CHARLES {1809-1882}
Evolution
Cartoon
Latin poetry
Verse satire

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